Wolfmannshausen

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Wolfmannshausen
Municipality grave field
Wolfmannshausen coat of arms
Coordinates: 50 ° 25 ′ 40 ″  N , 10 ° 27 ′ 33 ″  E
Height : 366 m
Area : 8.04 km²
Residents : 445  (Jul 3, 2015)
Population density : 55 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation : December 1, 2007
Postal code : 98631
Area code : 036944
map
Location of Wolfmannshausen in Grabfeld
Church of St. Aegidius
Boundary stone from the First World War between the districts of Hildburghausen and Meiningen

Wolfmannshausen is a village in the southern district of Schmalkalden-Meiningen in Thuringia . Since December 1, 2007, the formerly politically independent municipality has been part of the Grabfeld municipality .

geography

The place is located 18 km southeast of Meiningen and is noticeable from afar due to the high tower of its church. The Bibra , which rises not far to the southeast, flows through the village . Halfway between Wolfmannshausen and Queienfeld , in the immediate vicinity of the former border between the Meiningen and Hildburghausen districts, there is the "Untere Hellert" commercial and industrial area with a few businesses.

history

The place was first mentioned in 956 in a donation from noble Wolmut. Wolfmannshausen probably owes its name to him. Already around 3000 BC There was a settlement here, as can be deduced from soil finds of ceramic shards unearthed in 1996, which represent stamped ceramics based on the model of the Rössen culture . Shards of the linear ceramics were also found, which are rare in southern Thuringia.

Three groups of burial mounds between the village and Sülzdorf are covered with burial mounds from the Hallstatt period. In the group to the northwest, a burial mound is covered with a stone wreath and an indicated funeral pyre from an astrological point of view. The name of this area, "Donnersheide", indicates a place that used to be of cultic significance.

First, the Bavarian Grand Duchy of Würzburg belong, the place came in exchange for Sondheim in grave field until 1808 with treaty between the duchies of Würzburg and the Protestant Saxony-Meiningen of Saxe-Meiningen; however, the citizens retained their Catholic faith. During the GDR era , Wolfmannshausen was still part of the Würzburg diocese . Karl Ebert was the last episcopal commissioner of the Bishop of Würzburg in Meiningen.

Catholic enclave

The parish Wolfmannshausen was up to the 1894 founding of the parish made Meiningen the only parish of the diocese of Wuerzburg which are not within Bavaria was, but to Saxe-Meiningen was one. The replacement of the pastor's position was therefore a political issue, as the government of the Lower Main District refused to send Bavarian candidates to foreign services. It was only through an official request from Bishop Adam Friedrich Groß zu Trockau to Duke Bernhard II in 1829 that a compromise could be found with the Bavarian King Ludwig I. The Catholic parish was an enclave in a Protestant country. The pastor of Wolfmannshausen therefore also looked after the Catholic parishes in Meiningen and Hildburghausen from 1837 . When the ordinariate tried to establish its own pastor in Meiningen in 1857, he was deported across the Bavarian border. From 1859 to 1861 the later Bishop of Speyer Joseph Georg von Ehrler was chaplain of Wolfmannshausen and Hildburghausen. The St. Agidius Church in Wolfmannshausen was a Catholic parish church until 2008 and has been a branch church since then .

politics

District Council

The district council of Wolfmannshausen consists of the mayor of the district and 4 other district councils, all of which are provided by the CDU . (As of: local elections on June 7, 2009)

District Mayor

Lothar Seeber (CDU) is the honorary mayor of the district. He was last elected on May 25, 2014. Since 2000 he was the last honorary mayor before the incorporation.

coat of arms

The coat of arms was designed by the heraldist Karl-Heinz Fritze from Niederorschel .

Economy and Infrastructure

From 1893 to 1970 Wolfmannshausen had a stop on the now disused Rentwertshausen – Römhild railway line .

Web links

Commons : Wolfmannshausen  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ StBA: Changes in the municipalities in Germany, see 2007
  2. ↑ Michael Köhler : Pagan sanctuaries. Pre-Christian places of worship and suspected cult sites in Thuringia. Jenzig-Verlag Köhler, Jena 2007, ISBN 978-3-910141-85-8 , p. 128.
  3. ^ Website of the municipality of Grabfeld.
  4. ^ Alfred Wendehorst : The Diocese of Würzburg 1803-1957. Stürtz, Würzburg 1965, pp. 73-75.